Whachoo talkin 'bout

[Grumpmeister]

Hang on, litle Gary Coleman was rowing and hitting the steering wheel with his hands? Was he sat in her lap or something?

Former Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman has been charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly rowing with a woman in a Utah car park.
Witnesses say the 39-year-old was in a car with a woman talking and hitting the steering wheel with his hands.

Captain Cliff Argyle alleges Mr Coleman left the vehicle "yelling and screaming" and prevented other drivers from exiting the car park.

Hmm let me see, bad tempered midget vs average american car - usually a huge SUV. How the hell did he manage to stop people leaving?

If he is convicted he could face up to three months in jail and a fine.

Mr Coleman is best known for playing Arnold Jackson in the family TV comedy series Diff'rent Strokes, which aired from 1978 to 1986.

He once fought a legal battle with his parents over whether he was fit to handle his own affairs.

In 1999, he pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace after he punched an autograph-seeker he claimed insulted him.

The actor, who has suffered kidney problems since birth, later filed for bankruptcy blaming financial mismanagement.

  Given his height I pity that autograph hunter, he'd be at just the right level to do some major damage.

[Barman]

Who? 

[Uncle Mort]

Indeed ~ who?

[Darwins Selection]

Who indeed?

[Berek]

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ9LWSUEeEw

[Snoopy]

Actor from a programme called Diff'rent Strokes back in the 70/80s. Gary played an adopted black child, very streetwise, hip etc who had been taken in by an upper class white male and his older (Then the Gray Character) white son. The family were clearly rich, which suited the "poor black kid" and the obvious implications of a whole white adult household adopting a young black child seemed to be OK in those non PC days. Gary got too "big for his boots" eventually as stardom and drugs/drink took over his life. A born loser in every respect IMHO.

 "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout" was his catch phrase whenever any white man logic was applied to his misdeeds.

Wiki tells us that:
Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois. He suffers from a congenital kidney disease causing nephritis (an autoimmune destruction of the kidney), which halted his growth at an early age, leading to a small stature (4 ft 8 in; 1.42 m). He has undergone two kidney transplants, one in 1973 and one in 1984, and requires daily dialysis.

[Bar Wench]

Ahem, I think you might find it was an older daughter. Kimberley I believe her name was.

[Snoopy]

Ahem, I think you might find it was an older daughter. Kimberley I believe her name was.

You are no doubt far better versed than I who would have only seen bits of the show as I prepared and served the evening meal to my children who were watching it. The whole "regular cast" picture:

I still say that nowadays they wouldn't get away with it and the old white guy would have been replaced by Bill Cosby so as not to suggest an elderly white man with a "interest" in small black boys.

[Bar Wench]

Exactly!

Was an entertaining programme though.

[Barman]

Actor from a programme called Diff'rent Strokes back in the 70/80s. Gary played an adopted black child, very streetwise, hip etc who had been taken in by an upper class white male and his older (Then the Gray Character) white son. The family were clearly rich, which suited the "poor black kid" and the obvious implications of a whole white adult household adopting a young black child seemed to be OK in those non PC days. Gary got too "big for his boots" eventually as stardom and drugs/drink took over his life. A born loser in every respect IMHO.

 "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout" was his catch phrase whenever any white man logic was applied to his misdeeds.

Wiki tells us that:
Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois. He suffers from a congenital kidney disease causing nephritis (an autoimmune destruction of the kidney), which halted his growth at an early age, leading to a small stature (4 ft 8 in; 1.42 m). He has undergone two kidney transplants, one in 1973 and one in 1984, and requires daily dialysis.

I must say, it does sounds absolutely hilarious? 

[Bar Wench]

I was a small child. 

[Snoopy]

Actor from a programme called Diff'rent Strokes back in the 70/80s. Gary played an adopted black child, very streetwise, hip etc who had been taken in by an upper class white male and his older (Then the Gray Character) white son. The family were clearly rich, which suited the "poor black kid" and the obvious implications of a whole white adult household adopting a young black child seemed to be OK in those non PC days. Gary got too "big for his boots" eventually as stardom and drugs/drink took over his life. A born loser in every respect IMHO.

 "Whatchoo talkin' 'bout" was his catch phrase whenever any white man logic was applied to his misdeeds.

Wiki tells us that:
Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois. He suffers from a congenital kidney disease causing nephritis (an autoimmune destruction of the kidney), which halted his growth at an early age, leading to a small stature (4 ft 8 in; 1.42 m). He has undergone two kidney transplants, one in 1973 and one in 1984, and requires daily dialysis.

I must say, it does sounds absolutely hilarious? 

My children thought so but then children will always laugh at "Authority" being bested and the prog did espouse the traditional "American Value" of the good guys always winning in the end. Personally I was happy to be on kitchen duty.

[Grumpmeister]

I seem to remember seeing him in Buck Rodgers when I was a kid as well and more recently if memory serves he was included as a mickey take in a very controversial computer game and was also hired as a security guard  for Pamela Anderson.

[Snoopy]

I was a small child. 

That is the point I was making about being on kitchen duty for my children when the programme was on.
Son#1 born in 1968, Daughter#1 born in 1970. Daughter#2 born 1993 Son#2 born 1998 Son#3 born 2001.
 
So a little respect for your elders would not go amiss young lady.

[Bar Wench]

I was a small child. 

That is the point I was making about being on kitchen duty for my children when the programme was on.
Son#1 born in 1968, Daughter#1 born in 1970. Daughter#2 born 1993 Son#2 born 1998 Son#3 born 2001.
 
So a little respect for your elders would not go amiss young lady.

T'was rolling at the BarMan. Not you dear. I slot right in between your two broods. I'd be unique. Perfect middle child adoption material.